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Jewish-American-Iranian Lit

Dalia Sofer’s novel The September of Shiraz received a rapturous review in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review. “The Septembers ...

Rabbis and the Dating Scene

This week Jordie Gerson, a rabbinical student at HUC in New York, published a witty piece about the difficulties of ...

Art Green in Utah

During the second day of the “Why Be Jewish?” conference, Art Green taught several passages from the Sefat Emet and ...

The Idiots Guide To…

I love Amazon. One can buy just about anything and everything. I personally use it for dog bones, Muppet DVDs, ...

Conference Asks: Why Be Jewish?

Last night, I returned from a few days in Park City, Utah where I was attending a conference sponsored by ...

The Gaza Bus Tour and other stories

-On a tour bus, journalists are subjected to the Hamas spin operation, but it’s a pretty rigid operation. (The Globe ...

Defining Charity

While Palestinians continue to battle each other for control of Gaza, another battle involving Hamas is taking place on American ...

Jews in Sports

-In its early decades, Jews were an important part of basketball. For example, half of the 1946-47 New York Knickerbockers ...

Lunch Break! (MJL Style).

At MJL, we live, breathe, and even eat Jewish learning. Though we dedicate our entire day to bringing you interesting ...

Did You Get Your Sweetie Flowers?

Today is Tu B’av, the Jewish “Valentine’s Day.” Tu B’Av, the 15th Day of Av, is both an ancient and ...

Money Matters

Is it OK to be “buying out someone else’s mitzvahâ€? so you can do it yourself? (The Jerusalem Post) The ...

Jew York

Jewish life is seemingly apparent everywhere in New York City. From the numerous kosher restaurants, to those in Orthodox garb ...

Where Things Stand

Reservists who fought in the Lebanon war, now a year later, give a more nuanced view of their experiences. Includes ...

Small Giving, Big Impact

Today’s Jewish philanthropic news centers around those who give $5 million or more. In recent years many organizations have focused ...